image: Great reed warblers nestlings (ca. 8 days old) begging for food. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Jan. 23, 2015, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by M. Asghar at Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia, Bulgaria, and colleagues was titled, "Hidden costs of infection: Chronic malaria accelerates telomere degradation and senescence in wild birds." view more
Credit: [Credit: Arne Hegemann]